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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend observe as they go further up the mountain road?
(a) There are headstones along the roadside.
(b) The road worsens.
(c) Everything has been burned to the ground.
(d) There is a single small hut every few miles.

2. What do the Main Character, the Girlfriend and the person who comes to pick up the cat discuss early in Chapter 24?
(a) Messages from God.
(b) The starred sheep.
(c) The advertising business.
(d) The superiority of animals over humans.

3. Who admits, after revealing the Rat's situation, to having sent the Girlfriend away?
(a) The Rat.
(b) The Boss.
(c) The Sheep.
(d) The Strange Man.

4. How do the Main Character and the Girlfriend get to the station after the cat is picked up?
(a) The Strange Man sends a different car for them.
(b) They take the Girlfriend's car.
(c) They are taken by the same person who picks up the cat.
(d) They call a taxicab.

5. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend eat after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?
(a) Lunch.
(b) They do not eat. They drink beer.
(c) A snack of peanuts and pretzels.
(d) Breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Sheep Professor?

2. What vehicle is sent to pick up the cat?

3. What type of station do the Main Character and the Girlfriend go to in Chapter 24?

4. Who does the Main Character discover is originally from Hokkaido?

5. How does the person who picks up the cat feel about caring for the cat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the Rat able to destroy the Sheep?

2. Who is responsible for the Strange Man's death?

3. How does the Main Character react to the Girlfriend's sudden disappearance?

4. What factors contribute to the eerie feeling of the area near the villa in Junitaki?

5. Do the Girlfriend's ears help the quest while staying at the Dolphin Hotel?

6. Is the Limo Driver an intelligent man?

7. What is the importance of time to the characters in Chapter 24?

8. Is the Cat or the Main Character more at home in the world? Please fully support your answer.

9. Why does the Main Character feel that he is being used as a pawn?

10. Was the Main Character a good choice for the Strange Man's sheep finding mission?

(see the answer keys)

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